1. I've decided to keep a tally of most critical labs in one admission, starting today (not including renal failure patients): hgb, glucose, potassium, chloride, PT and INR
2. Farawyn's what I learned thread was way cooler than mine are.
Adding an 80s song makes any thread way cooler.
3. Don't trust a 0600 portable chest X-ray to tell you if pulling a chest tube at 1600 is a good idea. It really sucks to tell someone they have a pneumo still.
4. If someone has q4h benzos and opiates, bring both when they ask for one because they'll just ask for the other after you've already run to the med room twice for them.
5. When someone's paracentesis site is still actively dripping rather steadily, it makes me want to squeeze that sucker and see how far I can shoot the fluid out.
6. This week, it actually was sarcoidosis.
7. I know what sarcoidosis is now.
Sarcoidosis sucks.
8. Doctors really need to stop saying, "we're going to go ahead and discharge you," without adding, "this afternoon", especially when they know full well they won't be putting in discharges anytime soon.
9. I think I've realized that the best docs we have actually enjoy my unit the best because they chart there.
I learned that one self righteous, strident poster has the ability to get one entertaining thread shut down and another one scrutinized by the mods all in a matter of hours.
Amazing the power some people have-I'm definitely going to remember (and ignore) this person in the future.
I learned that one self righteous, strident poster has the ability to get one entertaining thread shut down and another one scrutinized by the mods all in a matter of hours.
Amazing the power some people have-I'm definitely going to remember (and ignore) this person in the future.
I learned that if an elderly woman with dementia comes in for a hug, ABORT mission! She is really trying to strangle you. That woke me up for the day.
Be sure you're keeping your stethoscope anywhere but around your neck. Glad the strangling attempt was unsuccessful. I would've missed your witty quips.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Be sure you're keeping your stethoscope anywhere but around your neck. Glad the strangling attempt was unsuccessful. I would've missed your witty quips.
Or whatever would've come out of your mouth when the LOL tried to give you a death grip.
I learned that if an elderly woman with dementia comes in for a hug, ABORT mission! She is really trying to strangle you. That woke me up for the day.
Either that or she's covered in poop and trying to share the love. I never have clean patients want to hug me. Clean patients don't like hugs. Poopy, vomit-encrusted patients like hugs.
...I learned that I am tamer than I thought, I guess. Other than starring out the "witch" word once, I've never had a mod alter any of my posts or had any of my posts deleted. I'm obviously very boring.
Jensmom7, BSN, RN
1,907 Posts
-MAs are actually awesome people who can do as much as or more than LPNs and RNs, just because.
-Same for Vet Techs.